In the coming days, a creationist conspiracy theorist who thinks President Obama is a gay prostitute, could be in a position to rewrite school textbooks and decide what is taught in class.

Mary Lou Bruner has promised voters that, if elected to the State Board of Education in Texas, she will “promote conservative curriculum standards aligned with Texas values.” The problem is, a quick look at what Bruner considers ‘Texas Values’ make the proposition of putting her in a place to shape young minds utterly terrifying.

Dinosaurs became extinct after leaving Noah’s Ark due to the lack of vegetation remaining after the Great Flood. She explains her logic: “Most of the dinosaur fossils which scientists have found are permanently preserved in positions of great distress as if they were trying to keep their heads above water or above the mud.”

“Many of the (sex ed) books which teachers read to your small children are not allowed in jails and prisons because of the bad effect the books have on the prisoners.”

The Democratic Party assassinated JFK because “the socialists and Communists in the party did not want a conservative president”

Muslims and Islam should be outlawed in America, saying: “USA should ban Islam and stop all immigration. from Muslim countries because Islam’s stated goal is to conquer the USA and kill the infidels.”

The United Nations exists to deliver a New World Order and will use mass extermination events to shrink the world population by two thirds.

These are just the highlights. Statements that, in any right-thinking world would preclude a person from being elected to a position of authority within the State education system. Sadly, this is not the case in Texas.

Far from being some outsider, no-chance candidate, she has been endorsed by none other than the Former Chairman of the Texas State Board of Education Gail Lowe, and a raft of others. She won 48 percent of the vote in the GOP primary on Tuesday, putting her well-above her opponents. She’ll now face a run-off election, and she’ll likely win.

Bruner has every chance of being allowed a say in what goes in our children’s textbooks and what they are taught in class. This racist, anti-gay, anti-science conspiracy theorist might very soon have a central role in shaping the minds of young Americans. If that doesn’t care you, nothing will.

Author: Kerry-AnneKerry-anne Mendoza is an independent journalist.
She is well know for investigative reports on politics, economics and social policy and is author of Amazon best-seller "Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy".
She has been traveling to and reporting from the Middle East for 13 years, most recently reporting from Gaza during Operation Protective Edge, and making the film 'Palestine: What Hope Peace?'
After a career as a management consultant holding senior positions in Banking, Health and Local Government - she gave it all up to live in a tent at Occupy London and has been writing ever since. She is based in the UK.